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Examines Aboriginal health in the Kimberley in the context of its contemporary social history; impacts of pastoralism , mining, pearling, missions and government; conflicting Aboriginal and western medical traditions; administrative responses to disease - leprosy; population estimates and mortality rates; alcohol abuse - theories and studies; survey of alcohol use in the Kimberley and its effects; theories of suicide in the Aboriginal population; deaths in custody - survey of cases in the Kimberley and related factors; social context of violence - self-mutilation and domestic violence; community violence - Balgo; identity - changes om gender power relations, inter-racial status, economic and social roles; development of Aboriginality; identity in children; theories of anomie; gambling; general problems of change - stereotypes and imposed solutions; schema of the development paradigm and its relation to Aborigines

Examines Aboriginal health in the Kimberley in the context of its contemporary social history; impacts of pastoralism , mining, pearling, missions and government; conflicting Aboriginal and western medical traditions; administrative responses to disease - leprosy; population estimates and mortality rates; alcohol abuse - theories and studies; survey of alcohol use in the Kimberley and its effects; theories of suicide in the Aboriginal population; deaths in custody - survey of cases in the Kimberley and related factors; social context of violence - self-mutilation and domestic violence; community violence - Balgo; identity - changes om gender power relations, inter-racial status, economic and social roles; development of Aboriginality; identity in children; theories of anomie; gambling; general problems of change - stereotypes and imposed solutions; schema of the development paradigm and its relation to Aborigines

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1952-

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Hunter, Ernest M.

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Forrest River Mission (W.A.)

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Aboriginal health and history : power and prejudice in remote Australia / Ernest Hunter